Maine · Nonprofit
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC (Maine) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,746,153 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($12,507,776). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $136M
What College of the Atlantic does
Mission
Operation of a four year accredited degree college, operation of a small graduate program and other summer education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tuition, fees and room and board. College of the Atlantic offers undergraduate classes to approximately 350 students. A degree in human ecology can be earned for undergraduates and a masters of philosophy degree in human ecology can be earned for graduate students. The college provides on campus housing to approximately 160 students.
$28,596,689 spentof which $11,546,450 as grants$20,595,820 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,596,689.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $122M to $141M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Ann Elizabeth Gardiner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $5.5M.
17 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 41% · 2021 74% · 2022 55% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
64% of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC?
- COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC (Maine) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,746,153 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($12,507,776). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $42,746,153 in grants to COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $12,507,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 121 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing